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...welcome was as grand as protocol would allow. On his first visit to Washington since he assumed office last July, Japan's Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki, 70, was greeted with a fanfare of trumpets, a 19-gun salute, a military guard in 1776 revolutionary raiment and the largest diplomatic dinner the Reagans have given in the White House. The 109 guests ranged from captains of industry to Cabinet members of both countries to James Clavell, author of the bestseller Shōgun, and Actor Richard Chamberlain, star of the TV miniseries based on Clavell's novel. The pomp...
...surface, at least, the two-day visit was a success. Suzuki was the ninth Japanese Prime Minister to come to Washington since the end of World War II. The President and the Prime Minister were able to "speak openly, as real buddies," said Suzuki, according to his translator, and establish what he called "an unshakable basis for friendship and mutual trust." A somewhat more concrete result of the meeting was issued when the talks concluded. In a 15-point joint communique, Japan agreed in principle to undertake additional military functions in defending its homeland and the Far East region...
This parting concord was remarkable considering several recent storms in trans-Pacific relations. Only a week before his departure for the U.S., Suzuki allowed that he had been "bewildered" by Washington's decision to lift the grain embargo against the Soviet Union and angered by the American failure to consult his government "sufficiently in advance." Suzuki's countrymen were also outraged when a U.S. submarine in April collided with a Japanese freighter in the East China Sea and then inexplicably left it to sink and two crew members to die. The resolution of a third and longer-standing...
...Japanese televiewers, the landing occurred in the early hours before dawn, local time. But in a country that both admires and competes with American technology, some 2 million households tuned in for the event. In his message of congratulations to the U.S., Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki said of the shuttle: "It is the crystallization of your nation's highly developed technologies and scientific achievements and symbolizes the beginning of an 'American renewal...
Meanwhile in Japan, the Suzuki government tried to pressure its auto companies to restrain exports. Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ito said that he was "determined" to keep the issue from developing into a more serious political one. The Japanese fear that the auto confrontation will upset Prime Minister Suzuki's visit to Washington in early May. As an advance man for that visit and a conciliator on the auto problem, former Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda traveled to Washington last week and met with President Reagan...